Berry v. Deloney’s Empirical Analysis
28 F.3d 604 · 1994
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably In the Matter of Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Incorporated (1995), Bronk v. Ineichen (1995)
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on McI Communications Corporation McI v. American Telephone and Telegraph Company · Sikes v. Bancboston Mortgage Corp. · Barr Laboratories, Inc. v. Abbott Laboratories · Ross v. Black & Decker, Inc. · Niehus v. Liberio
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an onerous burden 'because a reviewing court gives special deference to the evidentiary rulings of the trial court.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 42(b) permits the separate trial of any issue when separation would be “in furtherance of convenience or to avoid prejudice, or when separate trials will be conducive to expedition and economy. Only one of these criteria need be satisfied for a court to enter a separate trial. We review a district court’s bifurcation decisions for abuse of discretion.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he abuse of discretion standard is met only when the trial judge's 'decision is based on an erroneous conclusion of law or where the record contains no evidence on which [s]he rationally could have based that decision, or where the supposed facts found are clearly erroneous.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.